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Dingle vs Dell - What's the difference?

dingle | dell |

Dingle is a synonym of dell.


As nouns the difference between dingle and dell

is that dingle is a small, narrow or enclosed, usually wooded valley while dell is valley.

dingle

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A small, narrow or enclosed, usually wooded valley.
  • * 1954 , , Chapter 4
    • Turning to the left and skirting this huge hedge Treebeard came in a few strides to a narrow entrance. Through it a worn path passed and dived suddenly down a long steep slope. The hobbits saw that they were descending into a great dingle , almost as round as a bowl, very wide and deep, crowned at the rim with the high dark evergreen hedge.

    Anagrams

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    dell

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • valley
  • * 1794, , lines 49-50
    • To this day they dwell
    In a lonely dell .
  • * Tickell
    • In dells and dales, concealed from human sight.
  • (obsolete) A young woman; a wench.
  • * Ben Jonson
    • Sweet doxies and dells .

    Synonyms

    * dale * dingle * vale * valley * See also